Quotes by Johannes Tauler - Page 1

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Matter
Ready
What Matters
God Good Will
Matters
Obey
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Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
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Directed
Rid
Toward
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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Creation
Letting Go
Sin
Teach
Sins
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Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
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Detach
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In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
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Humble
Humility
School
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God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
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God
Wisdom
Decided
Rewards
Reward
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I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.
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Home
Men
Society
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Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Blind
Ignorant
Depths
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You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Grows
Holy
World
Closer
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Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
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Depends
Nothingness
Sinking
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Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
God
Religion
Giving
Soul
Your Soul
Yourself
Enter
Entirely
Give
Ground
Hidden
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Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.
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Humble
Judging
Sincerely
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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Fall
Return
Turn To God
God Day Will
Rise
Seventy
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As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Body
Foundation
Wine
Wholesome
Ground
Inner
Proper
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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Faults
Inward
Weakness
God Yourself Your
Confront
Discern
Enter
Ground
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A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Beneficial
Exercise
Interrupted
Meditation
Occasional
Religious
Good More Than
Exercises
Outward
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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Achieve
Divine
Prayer
Want
Backs
External
Temporal
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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
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Knowledge
Learning
Wisdom
Men
Dying
Humility
School
Silence
Speak
Forgetting
Learns
To Live By
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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Heaven
Kingdom Of Heaven
Kingdoms
Count
Crowned
Wrought
Yours
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
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Babbling
Beads
Believe
Mere
Prayer
Psalms
Reciting
Allow
Consists
Roam
Thoughts
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In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Heart
Looks
Silence
God Heart Look
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Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Artificial
Humility
Judged
Judging
Real
Judge
Paul
Real Sense
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The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
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Eternal
Fruit
Gracious
Green
Heart
Marvelous
Surpassing
Tongue
Bloom
Conceive
Express
Forth
Permits
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Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Contemplative
Fashion
Night
Prayer
Suitable
According
Depths
Engage
Sink
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If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
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Men
Heart
Years
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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
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Desire
Inequality
Lying
Moving
Touch
Desires
Equally
Gifts
Lies
Received
Warnings
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He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Men
Fall
Spiritual
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God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.
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Men
Christian
Prayer
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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
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Nature
Grace
Intimate
Soul
Nature God Soul
Actively
Nature God Always
Hidden
Innermost
Possesses
Substantially
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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
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Demise
Fall
Grace
Harm
Nevertheless
Sin
Apt
Inclined
Mortal
Sins
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Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?
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Depth
Ignorant
Self
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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Blessed
Good People
Grace
Heart
Hundred
Long
Profit
Pure
Sickness
Time Health Good
Health Time Good
Hundred Times
Immeasurable
Receive
Sacrament
Spiritually
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You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.
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Break
Heart
Strong
Thousand
Ties
Heart Yourself Your
Overcome
Cruel
Enemies
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Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Alexandria
Martyr
Thousand
Thousand Years
God Man Your
Hearts
Hour
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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Desire
Entry
Guests
Offering
Soul
Finds
Gain
Gifts
Occupied
Remain
Therefore
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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Johannes Tauler / Preacher
Blessed
Comparison
Exalted
Exercise
Godly
Manage
Pious
Practise
Profound
God Your May
God May Your
Devout
Meditations
Sacrament
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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.
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Love
Men
Spring
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God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
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God
Long
Water
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